The Overview was revised to add information about the IBM i for Business Intelligence solution. The Description section was revised to remove the statement that the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool now supports IBM i. A statement of direction was added, saying that the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool is planned to support IBM i.

POWER7 Systems Live Partition Mobility, providing the next step in virtualization and enabling more robust cloud solutions.

IBM Software Group Support for IBM i Workgroups, allowing the licensing of IBM software products to reflect usage.

More granular security options for users have been added to DB2® WebQuery, and a relaunch of the product simplifies the ordering process.

DB2 for i performance and security enhancements along with new features to improve the productivity of software developers.

Extended capabilities of the PowerHA® Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and FlashCopy® functions to the recently announced IBM Storage Systems Storwize® V7000 and SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

Application Management ToolSet (AMTS) from IBM Rational® to be used by application providers who need to edit and compile installation scripts or application managers needing to use "work with" capabilities.

IBM Web Enablement for i (5722-WE2) has been enhanced to include WebSphere® Application Server - Express® V8.5.

The IBM i 7.1 Technology update builds on the foundation established by the IBM i 7.1 release. It includes significant new function providing additional capabilities to our clients who are moving to cloud implementations. As with previous Technology updates, additional functions and features have been added to key IBM i technologies such as DB2 , DB2 WebQuery, and PowerHA .

IBM i 7.1 Technology updates:

POWER7 Systems Live Partition Mobility minimizes the impact of planned outages by enabling the movement of running partitions from one server to another. This capability enables the implementation of more robust cloud solutions.

DB2 for i delivers performance and security enhancements along with new features that will improve the productivity of software developers.

IBM Passport Advantage® Sub-capacity Licensing offering has been expanded to include new eligibility and counting rules for IBM i Workload Groups.

IBM DB2 Web Query is now available with a new product structure to simplify packaging. The product is now available as either an Express or a Standard offering. Enhancements also include a focus on more granular user security with an entirely new user security center.

The IBM i for Business Intelligence solution, a packaged solution of hardware, software, and installation services, has been refreshed with the latest version of the DB2 Web Query Standard edition product.

IBM Application Runtime Expert for i includes enhancements to support easier access to the product without compromising the overall security of the system.

IBM Developer Kit for Java has been enhanced to support Java 7 for IBM i. Clients developing Java applications can now use the most recent enhancements to the Java language.

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i is adding support for the recently announced Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller (SVC) storage systems to its Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and FlashCopy functions.

The newest member of the IBM i Access family of products is available as a technology preview only. Written in Java , this product extension removes the dependence on preinstalled and configured code and allows clients to easily put key IBM i Access client code onto a variety of other devices, including Mac and Linux .

IBM i support for new I/O emphasizes price/performance and configuration flexibility, especially for SSD, Ethernet, and External Storage configurations.

IBM Rational Application Management Toolset for i provides system administrators and other advanced users with a lightweight set of tools for the common tasks of working with library objects and building procedures with Command Language (CL).

IBM Web Enablement for i (5722-WE2) has been enhanced to include WebSphere Application Server - Express V8.5.

IBM i Live Partition Mobility allows for the movement of a running partition from one POWER7® server to another with no application downtime, resulting in better system utilization and improved application availability.

Live Partition Mobility is a major step in IBM's Power Systems virtualization continuum. It can be combined with other virtualization technologies, such as logical partitions with shared I/O and storage, to provide a fully virtualized computing platform that offers the degree of system and infrastructure flexibility required by today's production data centers.

Live Partition Mobility is a feature of the PowerVM Enterprise Edition offering.

Virtual Image Management provides a single, unified view of all system templates and virtual server images to help you manage and deploy systems. It allows you to easily deploy new physical and virtual systems based on system templates and images. The templates can be used to create, customize, and clone virtual and physical images.

DB2 for IBM i on 7.1 included base XML datatype support, enabling XML documents to be stored intact within a column in an SQL table. With new XMLTABLE support, SQL queries can use XPath syntax to refer to XML data as an SQL result set. This allows the user to query XML data using SQL, without having to shred the document into database tables or host variables.

DB2 for i three-part name support is extended to allow multiple database reference support in the form of INSERT with remote SUBSELECT. This improvement eases database administration and programming by allowing data to reside in a single location.

To learn about these and the other DB2 for i enhancements, visit the DB2 for i section of the IBM i Technology Updates wiki on developerWorks at

Workload Groups IBM i Workload Groups is now an Eligible Virtualization Technology for Passport Advantage Sub-capacity Licensing. Passport Advantage Sub-capacity Licensing allows customers to license an eligible software product for less than the full capacity of a server. It provides the licensing granularity needed to leverage various multi-core chip and virtualization technologies. As more customers take advantage of virtualization technologies in their server environments, IBM continues to introduce enhancements to the Sub-capacity Licensing offering.

For details and current information about Sub-capacity Licensing terms, visit the following

IBM DB2 Web Query for i (5733-WQE, 5733-WQS) is relaunched under a new product structure, 5733-WQX. This product structure provides both an Express and Standard level offering for simplified ordering and to help you match capabilities to your business needs. The product also provides core-based pricing to let customers order a level of Web Query that best fits their needs for their environment.

The new product provides many new functional enhancements that make the product even simpler to use, yet more powerful in capabilities. Creating reports and dashboards is made easier and faster using a single, consolidated web-based editor. A new web browser-based user security administration interface allows Web Query administrators to manage developers and users simpler and easier. Not only can users be managed through this new interface, those users can also be assigned specific roles, which enables more granular security controls for each user. New to the product is also a web-based metadata synonym editor to allow metadata management integration with the rest of the web-based interfaces. Report scheduling now supports standard IBM i job scheduling for those customers that want to integrate report scheduling with other batch work on the system.

Current DB2 Web Query customers with product 5733-QU2 will be entitled to the new product and will appreciate the built-in migration support in the new product to make the move simple.

The DB2 Web Query product 5733-WQX is available for IBM i 6.1 and 7.1.

Visit the IBM i Technology Updates wiki on developerWorks to learn more at

IBM Application Runtime Expert for i (5733-ARE) now includes a number of significant enhancements to make Application Runtime Expert more readily available to those that need to use it without compromising the overall security of their system. A number of additional enhancements have been added to improve users's ability to verify information on their environment.

Support for low authority user: In the previous release, only users with *ALLOBJ special authority were allowed to use the tool. It causes difficulty for organizations with security control to use the Application Runtime Expert tool. Now, administrators can grant specified users the permission to use the Application Runtime Expert tool, using IBM Web Administration for i. Low-authority users with granted permission can build templates using the tool.

Verify spooled files for CL commands: The Scripts and Commands plugin now supports processing of spooled files for CL commands. Spooled files can be verified according to configuration, and users can also save the spooled files into the report file for further investigation.

IBM Developer Kit for Java (5761- JV1) has been enhanced to support Java 7 both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. This new support is only available on IBM i 7.1. The following two options have been added:

5761-JV1 option 14 Java SE 7 32 bit

5761-JV1 option 15 Java SE 7 64 bit

Visit the IBM i Technology Updates wiki on developerWorks to learn more

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i now supports Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, and FlashCopy on the Storwize V7000 and SAN Volume Controller (SVC) storage systems. The PowerHA SystemMirror for i product has also been updated with a new, easy-to-use GUI, available in IBM i Navigator. The support for these functions is now fully integrated and translated, and the requirement for the 5799-HAS PRPQ has been eliminated.

To learn more, visit the PowerHA for i section of the IBM i Technology updates wiki on developerWorks at

A technology preview of IBM i Access Client Solutions (5733-XJ1) is now available. IBM i Access Client Solutions is the newest member of the IBM i Access family of products. It provides a Java based, platform-independent interface that runs on most operating systems that support Java , including Linux , Mac, and Windows . IBM i Access Client Solutions consolidates the most commonly used tasks for managing your IBM i into one simplified location.

IBM i Access Client Solutions uses the same IBM i host servers as the other IBM i Access Family products and requires the same IBM i Access Family license (XW1) in order to use the 5250 emulation and Data Transfer features.

To meet a common need of IBM i system administrators and advanced users, this new offering features simple, per-processor licensing at a price every company can afford.

IBM Rational Application Management Toolset for i provides IBM i system administrators and other advanced users with a lightweight set of tools for the common tasks of working with library file system objects and scripting with Command Language (CL).

Functionally, Application Management Toolset for i is a subset of the venerable Application Development Toolset (ADTS), which is sold as part of WebSphere Development Studio for i 6.1 or as part of Rational Development Studio for i 7.1. Two of the key components of ADTS are Programming Development Manager, commonly known as PDM, and Source Entry Utility, commonly known as SEU.

IBM i License Transfer adds the following:

Additional eligible donor servers:

Group 4:
System i 520 (9405-520 P05, 9406-520 P05)
Group 5:
System i 520 (9405-520 P10, 9406-520 P10/P20)

WebSphere Application Server - Express V8.5 is a Java EE 6-certified application server that delivers the core foundational requirements for an agile business and application foundation. It is imperative to build an application foundation that provides flexibility for developer needs as well as resiliency and scalable operations needs.

For developers and businesses that need a lightweight, simple to use and yet powerful application server for increased developer productivity and for use as a lightweight production server for application workloads, WebSphere Application Server - Express V8.5 provides a simplified and lightweight runtime for web applications. Extremely fast restart times coupled with its small size and ease of use make the new Liberty profile a great option for building web applications that do not require the full JEE environment of traditional enterprise application server profiles. It is also a great option for production servers where minimizing resource utilization is a primary requirement. Highlights for developers include:

The new lightweight Liberty profile

Developer tool options to match project development needs

Support for Java 7 and OSGi

Enhanced Migration Toolkit support

Support for the Web 2.0 and Mobile Toolkit

For administrators and businesses that need better total cost of ownership through management efficiency and performance, the ability to respond quickly to changes in the business, or achieve simplicity and flexibility in evolving to next-generation application server environments, WebSphere Application Server - Express V8.5 delivers new Intelligent Management capabilities that extend the traditional application server with technologies such as enhanced resiliency, virtualization, and enterprise-level batch processing. Autonomic capabilities are provided that are designed to sense and respond to problems within the application server and autocorrect or route around these problems before users experience an outage. Highlights for administrators include:

Application Edition Management

New Intelligent Routing capabilities

Application server Health Management

WebSphere Batch enhancements

For businesses that need to build, deploy, and manage secure and portable innovative applications that run on a multitude of mobile, server, and desktop systems, WebSphere Application Server is the flexible and efficient SOA application platform of choice.

IBM intends to enhance its systems management capabilities for Power Systems hardware as follows:

Continued integration between the base platform management capabilities in HMC and advanced capabilities in IBM Systems Director

Enhancement of the HMC to add support for Power Systems blades and mixed rack and blade server environments

New HMC virtual appliance offering

New process for transitioning from SDMC to HMC

Improved usability

Enhancement of HMC to provide RAID 1 support

IBM intends to provide PowerVM Live Partition Mobility support for IBM i partitions on IBM PureFlex Systems.

IBM plans that POWER6® servers running the IBM i release following 7.1 will not support the older, slower HSL/RIO-attached I/O drawers. This planning statement does not impact POWER7 clients or IBM i 7.1 clients. POWER7 servers do not support HSL/RIO I/O drawers and there is no change to IBM i 7.1 HSL/RIO support. IBM i clients who have an HSL/RIO-attached I/O drawer or tower such as the features 5094/5294, 0595/5095, 0588/5088, 5790, or 5791/5794 should plan on moving to newer 12X-attached I/O drawers on their POWER6 server before moving to the release following IBM i 7.1. Note that HSL/RIO I/O drawers or towers are the only enclosure that supports IOP adapters on a POWER6 server. Attachment to some older devices is only provided through an IOP-based adapter. For example, IOP-based communication adapters are required for SDLC/SNA/X.25 device attachment. Likewise, an IOP is required for twinax device attachment without a protocol converter. for additional detail, visit

The IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool is planned to support IBM i. This tooling is planned to allow ISVs and customers to construct customizable virtual images of IBM i virtual servers, including embedded applications. These virtual images could be subsequently deployed (provisioned) and automatically configured in environments managed through Systems Director VMControl.

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Zend Server Community Edition for IBM i enhancements

Zend Server Community Edition for IBM i

Starting in April 2010, Zend Server CE is preloaded on IBM i 5.4, IBM 6.1, and IBM 7.1. The first year of Silver support (web based) from Zend is provided for no additional charge. To receive support and product updates, customers must register at the Zend website

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Variable charges apply

No

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